ALVIRO PETERSEN

London: South African batsman Alviro Petersen has joined Lancashire after retiring from international cricket, the English county side announced on Thursday.
The 34-year-old bowed out of the international game earlier this month after scoring 2,093 runs in 36 Tests with five hundreds at an average of 34.88.
He has signed a two-year...

Cape Town: South Africa opening batsman Alviro Petersen is retiring from international cricket. Petersen made his announcement after top-ranked South Africa beat the West Indies by eight wickets in the third and final Test on Tuesday for a 2-0 series victory.
The 34-year-old Petersen said he will now concentrate on playing...

Durban: South Africa's opening batsman Alviro Petersen has said that Jacques Kallis in his last Test is "playing the perfect innings for his team".
Petersen himself scored 67 runs, but deemed that Kallis' unbeaten knock of 78 as more important in placing the Proteas just 35 runs behind the visitors at...

India were still left plenty to do on the final day of the first Test as the hosts finished the fourth day on 138 for 2, still 320 shy of India's target of 458 but still very much having a chance of drawing the game when they come out to...

Sharjah: Five top order South Africa batsmen warmed up for next week's first test against Pakistan by scoring halfcenturies against Pakistan A on Tuesday.
Jacque Kallis (70), Alviro Petersen (58), AB de Villiers (58) Hashim Amla (50) and JP Duminy (50 not out) all were among runs in hot and humid...

Jaipur: Otago Volts, who have impressed with their performance in their campaign so far, would be looking to consolidate their position for a semifinal berth when they take on Highveld Lions in a Group A match of Champions League Twenty20 here on Sunday.
Otago are placed second in the group with...

Two defeats in three games can seriously jeopardize a team's chances of qualifying for the semifinals in the Champions League Twenty20, which means the reigning IPL champions Mumbai Indians can't afford to slip again when they take on Highveld Lions in the Group A encounter at Jaipur's Sawai Mansingh Stadium...

Rajasthan Royals are ready to guard their Sawai Mansingh Stadium fortress in Jaipur as the Highveld Lions from South Africa try to break the stronghold of Rahul Dravid & Co. in a Group A match of the Champions League Twenty20 (CLT20) on Wednesday.
Rajasthan added another win to their unbeaten...

New Delhi: Rajasthan Royals will once again be ready to guard their Sawai Mansingh Stadium fortress in Jaipur as the Highveld Lions from South Africa try to break the stronghold of Rahul Dravid & Co. in a Group A match of the Champions League Twenty20 (CLT20) on Wednesday.
Rajasthan added...

Ahmedabad: The Lions from South Africa will look to go one up from their runners-up finish during last edition of Champions League T20 when they take on the Perth Scorchers in their opening group league game here on Monday.
Lions will be banking on captain Alviro Petersen, veteran Neil McKenzie, leggie...

Johannesburg: Alviro Petersen has replaced fellow opening batsman Graeme Smith in South Africa's squad for next month's Champions Trophy.
Head selector Andrew Hudson says Petersen is "the obvious choice" to come in for former limitedovers captain Smith, who was ruled out of the ODI tournament to have surgery on his injured...

London: South Africa star Graeme Smith suffered a frustrating debut as Surrey captain as his compatriot Alviro Petersen hit a superb 167 to put Somerset in a strong position in their County Championship match at the Oval on Wednesday.
Smith knows all about Petersen's strengths and weaknesses after batting alongside him...

Brisbane: Hashim Amla showed he wouldn't be intimidated by Australia's mind games, scoring an unbeaten 90 to guide South Africa to 255 for 2 at stumps on Friday after a seriesopening day dominated by the batsmen.
Amla surpassed 5,000 career runs and shared partnerships of 136 with Jacques Kaliis (84 not...

Durban: Kevin Pietersen waged a lone battle but Delhi Daredevils simply lacked the firepower as they lost to Highveld Lions by 22 runs in the first semifinal of the Champions League Twenty20 here on Thursday.
On a bouncy Kingsmead pitch, Highveld Lions got a decent 139 for 5 which was par...

Cape Town: Chennai Super Kings captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on Tuesday said that the loss of momentum due to free hits conceded to the opposition while defending the target was one of the reasons for his side's defeat at the hands of Highveld Lions in Champions League Twenty20 here.
The Lions...

Kimberley: Sri Lanka celebrated a rare success on Friday on their tour of South Africa with a fivewicket victory in the fourth oneday international.
Big knocks from captain Tillakaratne Dilshan (87), ManoftheMatch Thisara Perera (69) and Dinesh Chandimal (59) lifted the visitors to 3045 after the home side reached to 2997...

Johannesburg: Jacques Kallis and Hashim Amla have been rested from South Africa's oneday international (ODI) squad for the remainder of the series against Sri Lanka, Cricket South Africa (CSA) announced on Sunday.
Allrounder Kallis, 36, has been rested while Amla, the topranked batsman in ODIs, has been granted time off...

Cape Town: Jacques Kallis and Alviro Petersen hit centuries as South Africa dominated the first day of the third and final Test against Sri Lanka at Newlands on Tuesday. South Africa were 347 for three at the close after being sent in to bat.
Kallis, playing in his 150th Test match,...

Cape Town: South Africa must be mentally stronger in the third and final Test against Sri Lanka, captain Graeme Smith said on the eve of the match.
The home team won the first Test at Centurion by an innings and then went down to a 208run defeat in the second...

Cape Town: Vernon Philander and Alviro Petersen were recalled to boost an "embarrassed" South Africa on Monday as they aimed to bounce back from a shock defeat against Sri Lanka.
South Africa face a highpressure, seriesdeciding third Test in Cape Town starting on Tuesday, in a contest the home team was...